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You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.

Billy Wilder

Develop a clean line of action for your leading character
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Action Character Lines
Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
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Inspirational Motivational Movie
Well, nobody’s perfect.
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Gender Nobody Perfect Well
You’re as good as the best thing you’ve ever done.
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Best Things Done
An actor entering through the door, you’ve got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you’ve got a situation.
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Actors Doors Entering Situation
Eighty percent of a picture is writing, the other twenty percent is the execution, such as having the camera on the right spot and being able to afford to have good actors in all parts.
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Able Actors Camera Writing
After so many drive-in waitresses becoming movie stars, there has been this real drought, when along come class; somebody who actually went to school, can spell, maybe even plays the piano.
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Class Girl Real Somebody Stars
I had one life. And what did I do? Wasted it in some palooka preliminaries in Spain, just before Hitler and Chamberlain warm up for the main event.
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Chamberlain Events Preliminaries Spain
Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
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Funny History Luck
If you don’t like what you’re doing, it’s unlikely anyone else will either, so be sure you are happy with your own work first.
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First Firsts Own Unlikely
I am big. It’s the pictures that got small.
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Great Year Hollywood Films Movie
[on pop idol Donny Osmond] He has Van Gogh’s ear for music.
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Life Music Sarcastic
I never overestimate the audience, nor do I underestimate them. I just have a very rational idea as to who we’re dealing with, and that we’re not making a picture for Harvard Law School.
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Class Deal Law School Underestimate
My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?
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Aunt Hold Pay Punctuation
If you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act.
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Firsts Real Writing
My English is a mixture between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Archbishop Tutu.
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English Mixtures Schwarzenegger

You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.

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